Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-12-03
a"nathcma, it was demonstrated that the
body and soul are

anathcma, 1T was demonstrated that the
body and soul are
sIAMEsE TWINS.
and when you thrill the one with Joy or
sorrow you thrill the other. We might
as well recognize the tremendous fact
that there are two mighty for.resses in
the human body, the heart and the
liver; the neart, the fortress of all the
graces, the liver the fortress of all the
furies. You may have the head filled
With all intellectualities, and the ear
with all musical appreciation, and the
mouth with all ~eloquence, and the hand
with all industries, and the heart with
all generosities, and yet ''adart strike
through the liver"
FIRST, let Christian people avoid the
mistake that they are all wrong with
God because thew suffer from depres-
sion of spirits. Many a consecrated
man has found his spiritual sky be-
logged, and his hope of heaven blotted
out, and himself plunged chin deep
in the Slough of Despond, and has said:
'My heart is 1ot right with God, and
think | must have made 4 mistake, and
instead of being d child of light | am a
child Of darkness. No one can tee. as
gloomy as | feel and be a Christian"
And he has gone to his minister for
consolation, and he has collected
Flavel's books, and Cccil's books, and
Bakers books, and read and read and
read. and prayed and prayed and
prayed, and wept and wept and wept,
and groaned and groaned and groaned.
My brother, your trouble is not with
the heart, it is a gastric disorder or a
rebellion Of
II LIVER.
You need a physician more than you
need a clergyman. 1t is not sin that
blots ont your hope of heaven, but
bile. 1t rot only yellows your eyeball,
and furs your tongue, and makes your
head ache, but swoops upon your soul
in OBJECTIONS and forebodings. The
devil is after you. He has failed to
despoil your character, and he does the
next best thing for him-he rufles
your peace Of mind. When he says
that you are not a forgiven soul, when
he say that you are not right with
God, when he says that you will V
get to heaven, he lies. You are just as
sure of heaven as though you were
there already. But Satan finding that
he cannot keep you out of the promised
land of Canaan, has determined that
the spies shall not brlhg you any Of
the Eschol grapes beforehand, and that
you shall have nothing but prickly pear
and crab apple. You are just as good
now under the cloud as you were when
YOU were accustomed TO rise in the
morning at ; o'clock TO pray and sing
''Hallelujah, It's dOne!' My friend,
Rev. DR.. Joseph II. Jones, of Pnila-
dclphia, a translated spirit now, wrote
a book entitled: Man, Moral and
Physical" in which he shows how diff
fercnt the same things may appear to
different people. He says: CATER
the great battle on the Mincio in 1859,
between the French and Sardinilns on
the one side and The Austrians on the
other, so disastrous to the latter, the
defeated army retreatcd followed by
the victors. A description of the
march of each army is given by two
correspondents of the
LONDON TINES,
one of whom travelled with the success
full host, the other with the defeated.
The difference in views and statements
of the same place, scenes and events, is
remarkable. The former are said to
be marching through a beautiful and
luxuriant country during the day, and
at night encamping where they are
supplied with an abundance of the best
provisions, and all sorts OF rural dain-
ties. There is nothing of war about
the proceeding except its stimulus and
excitement. On the side of the poor
Austrians it is just the reverse. In his
letter of the ana date, describing the
same places and a march over the same
road, the writer can scarcely find words
to set forth the suffering, impotence
and disgust existing around him. What
was pleasant TO the former was in
tolerable to the latter. What made all
this difference? asks the journalist.
One condition only: The French are
victorious, the Aus.rians have Deen de-
feated. The contrast may convey q
distinctive idea of the extent to which
moral impressions affect the efficiency
Of the soldier"
50, my dear brother, the road you
are travelling is the same you have been
travelling a long while, but the differ
nee in your physical conditions makes
it look different, and therefore the two
reports you have given of yourself are
as widely different as the reports in the
London Times from the two correspou-
dents. Edward Payson, sometimes so
far up on the Mount that it seemed as
if the centripetal force Of cartA could
no longer hold him, sometimes through
a physical disorder was so far down
that it seemed as if the neither world
would clutch him.
GLORIOUS WILLIAM COWPER
was as good as good could be, and will
be loved in the Christian Church rs
long as it sings his hymn beginning:
There is q fountain filed with blood
and his hymn beginning: "Oh. for a
closer walk with God" and his hymn
beginning: "What various hindranccs
we meet," and his hymn beginning:
"God moves in a mysterious way"
We. so was he overcome of melancholy.